What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.